The Author's POV

"Thank you."

Amanda replied with a soft smile as she heard Ren's words.

Directly coming out of her own match she was quite tired, however, thinking back at her own mother's situation, she quickly discarded all of her tiredness and chose to visit Ren.

Aside from the fact that she wanted to make sure he was okay, she also wanted to see if he could help her.

Amanda understood her situation well.

She knew that her mother's situation was dire, and she also knew that if she did nothing the problem wouldn't solve itself.

Instead of keeping the problem to herself, she took it upon herself to try asking for help, and the first person that came to her mind was Ren.

She did also think about asking Kevin, but she felt more comfortable asking Ren first.

Even though she was comfortably around Kevin, she felt more at peace when she was around Ren.

Furthermore, having talked to him, Amanda knew that he had just come back from the dwarven domain. She also knew that his relationship with them was good, and therefore, after carefully thinking things through she decided to ask him if he had a way to solve the mind-breaker curse.

Her hopes were low, but nevertheless, it wouldn't hurt asking.

Sitting down, placing both of her hands on her laps, Amanda took a good look at the place before her eyes suddenly paused on a small black cat sitting by the edge of the window.

"Pudding?"

She called out in surprise. A flood of memories suddenly flashed through her head as the surprise in her eyes grew only bigger.

'How is she here?' She thought at first, but after that, staring at her fluffy fur, her right hand instantly twitched as she had a sudden urge to pet her.

However, the moment Amanda's words faded, pudding's body suddenly twitched as the room froze for a second before a wry smile appeared on Ren's face.

Scratching the back of his head, Ren forced a laugh before scooching his body away from pudding.

"Haha, yes, it's pudding."

He turned his head to look away from her.

Amanda tilted her head once she saw this, but recalling the purpose of her visit, she stopped paying attention to pudding and cleared her throat.

"Keum…keum…"

Her soft coughs rang through the room, attracting Ren's attention. Sensing the shift in Amanda's mood, he sat up straight.

"What's wrong?"

Brushing her hair behind her ear, Amanda softly said.

"...Do you remember the conversation we were having back at the tournament stands?"

"Tournament stands?"

Placing his hand on his chin, a thoughtful look appeared on his face as he tried his best to recall the previous conversation he had with her.

As he was thinking, gazing at him from where she was sitting, Amanda took a good look at him.

'He's changed.'

the type to care about someone's looks, however, if she had to say something, it was that the current

out, but so was his body

up forcing

did not last for long as Ren's loud voice echoed throughout every

mentioned something about your

quickly

herself, Amanda nodded her

"Yes."

happen

to ask before he raised his head and carefully looked around

said that she was here, but

but smile at his actions. The way he was moving his head around to look for her mother was funny. After all, there

it was because of such things that she

did not last for long as the smile soon wiped away from

"...She's sick."

said, and Ren finally stopped moving. Following this, worry and surprise

Leaning forward, he asked.

ask, what

had already braced herself to tell everything that had happened to

started to recount to him everything that had

how she told her about the situation with her mother, and how she had saved the queen's life. As she spoke, she made sure to not miss out a single

she didn't look exactly like

spoke, the heaviness in her chest

heavy burden had been lifted away from her, making her talk more

queen said that my mother is currently under the mind breaker curse and that if nothing is done, she will forever be trapped in

With her head lowered

her fist,

know that you probably don't know anything about my current situation and that I'm probably adding to

bitter and sad smile soon appeared

venting session. From the beginning, she never placed much hope in Ren being able to have a solution to her problem, but even then, she

and preparing herself to leave, her body suddenly froze when she saw

***

"This..."

at Amanda who was looking back at me, I was left momentarily

to her finding out that her mother was alive,

such a

what was even more shocking was the fact that I didn't know of

if it was regarding Amanda, one of the main characters of the story. 'Was it purposely left out by the entity?' I

into consideration. As far-fetched as it was, the possibility of it biting me in the ass in

that I suddenly recalled something important. Focusing my attention back towards

way to cure the curse of your

"Huh?"

moment she processed those words she stood up in shock and looked at me with eyes filled with a

"Really?"

filled with hope.

"Yes, I do."

when I went to Immorra with Kevin to collect the cure, I would've never thought

wasn't there someone that was supposed to be

reason why Kevin went to Immorra was to collect the Xurin fruits in order to heal someone from the mind-breaker curse. Was that someone Amanda's mother? ...If so, why did I know nothing about

pieced everything together, Kevin went to Immorra when he was ranked, and the timing perfectly coincided with the current timing...was I